GENTLE READER: It is clear to Miss Manners that you can, in fact, manage to pen a heartfelt and genuine letter. Because you ...

GENTLE READER: It is clear to Miss Manners that you can, in fact, manage to pen a heartfelt and genuine letter. Because you ...

Long list of thank-you notes the letter writer still has to write is “becoming a bitter chore and source of anxiety.” ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to managing thank you notes when gratitude feels ...

Gentle Reader: It is clear to Miss Manners that you can, in fact, manage to pen a heartfelt and genuine letter. Because you ...

I am most concerned about the task becoming a bitter chore and source of anxiety, crushing any real gratitude.

GENTLE READER: It is clear to Miss Manners that you can, in fact, manage to pen a heartfelt and genuine letter. Because you took three paragraphs to insist that your life is busier and more exhausting ...

First, find your mentors, teachers, people who have helped you along the way and let them know what they did, how they made ...

What do you do when the duty to write thank-you notes overwhelms any genuine sense of gratitude? In my own upbringing, reciprocity and eagerness to give were prized over the finer points of expressing ...

What do you do when the duty to write thank-you notes overwhelms any genuine sense of gratitude? In my own upbringing, reciprocity and eagerness to give were prized over the finer points of expressing ...

Every now and then when I page through my old notebooks I find interesting things I totally forgot. Most of the notebooks are interviews I did for my newspaper column. Sometimes I don’t remember the ...